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McCombs Alumni Jump Into iPhone App Market with SnapDat, Moximity Apps

April 28th, 2009 · Filed under: Alumni News · MBA · McCombs in the Media · Top Stories

Posted by Tracy Mueller

The New York Times technology blog Gadgetwise recently named McCombs-alumni owned SnapDat its App of the Week. SnapDat, owned by Chris James and Matt Knopf (above, at the 2009 Macworld Expo), both MBA ‘99, lets users create and share virtual business cards.
McCombs profiled James and Knopf, along with the Moximity app creator, Bryan Jones, MBA [...]

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Battle Tested: Texas MBAs Lead as Soldiers, Civilians

April 2nd, 2009 · Filed under: Alumni News · MBA · Top Stories

Posted by Tracy Mueller

Top brass. Rally the troops. Lead the charge.
Business lingo often borrows heavily from military vocabulary, but the overlap between the two worlds extends far beyond metaphors.
Former military officers are well-represented among our corporate chiefs. Research conducted in 2005 found that military officers were three times more likely than other Americans to serve as CEOs of [...]

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McCombs Seeks Military MBA Alumni

December 16th, 2008 · Filed under: Alumni News · MBA

Posted by Tracy Mueller

For a future story, the editors of Exchange, the McCombs MBA alumni magazine, are looking for MBA alumni who have served in the military. If you have served in the reserves, a service academy, active duty or ROTC before or after earning your MBA at McCombs, and you’d like to be part of the story, [...]

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